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CounselingCEUsOnline #35 - School Approaches To Family Counseling

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Directions: PRINT THIS EXAM ON YOUR PRINTER.  Read each question carefully and choose the BEST answer for each item based upon your reading.  Circle the letter of the answer you choose in each item.  When you finish the exam you can have it scored by:

A.     Mailing the completed exam to: Dr. Budd A. Moore, Exam Scoring At CounselingCEUsOnline, 8864 Lorford Drive, Chambersburg, PA  17201-9335

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C.     Completing the Honor Pledge at the end of the exam.

NOTE: No Contact Hours are awarded unless A through C are completed and received at CounselingCEUsOnline, 8864 Lorford Drive, Chambersburg, PA  17201-9335.

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Question # 1 (Multiple Choice) The concept of _________________________facilitates the understanding of symptoms.

A) reframing
B) communication
C) integration
D) redefinition
E) none of these.

Question # 2 (True/False) Family counseling are appropriate for all school situations.

A) True
B) False

Question # 3 (True/False) Family-related factors have little or no effect on school achievement and school-related factors.

A) True
B) False

Question # 4 (True/False) Family counseling is very similar to the individual models on which most counselors were trained.

A) True
B) False

Question # 5 (True/False) Many strategic counseling interventions appear to be unconventional to mainstream school counseling procedures.

A) True
B) False

Question # 6 (True/False) Family involvement is essential in the running of the schools today.

A) True
B) False

Question # 7 (True/False) Minuchin believes that there are universal rules for governing a family.

A) True
B) False

Question # 8 (True/False) Circular questioning discourages interaction within the family.

A) True
B) False

Question # 9 (True/False) Family roles played by all family members are unknown to other family members.

A) True
B) False

Question # 10 (Multiple Choice) Two people, who are uneasy with their dyadic interaction, attempt to defuse the tension in the relationship by focusing on a third party. This is known as

A) structuralism.
B) emotionalism.
C) dysfunction.
D) triangulation.
E) intergenerationalism.

Question # 11 (True/False) Substance abuse by at least one parent figure is very common and may result in direct modeling of the abuse by the child.

A) True
B) False

Question # 12 (Multiple Choice) Notwithstanding the importance of the social stage, the _______________________ is the most important focus at the early stage of school centered family counseling.

A) family
B) problem
C) family relationships
D) interaction
E) none of these

Question # 13 (True/False) The nuclear family consists of the marital couple and their children only.

A) True
B) False

Question # 14 (True/False) The first telephone contact is crucial in family counseling.

A) True
B) False

Question # 15 (Multiple Choice) Another term for homeostasis is

A) isolation
B) negentropy
C) balance
D) disorganization
E) enmeshment

Question # 16 (Multiple Choice) Systemic hypotheses about family functioning should always consider:

A) hierarchy.
B) boundaries.
C) alliances and coalitions.
D) adaptive changes.
E) all of these.

Question # 17 (Multiple Choice) Holman suggested that which of the following are essential to assessing families?

A) the problem
B) the family system
C) the family and its environment
D) the family life cycle
E) all of these.

Question # 18 (Multiple Choice) The transmission of the family emotional process from one generation to the next was first theorized by

A) Minuchin.
B) Bowen.
C) Satir..
D) McGoldrick.
E) Carter.

Question # 19 (Multiple Choice) Which of the following is NOT indicative of abuse in the home?

A) dirty or unkempt appearance
B) inappropriate clothing
C) sleep disturbance
D) reluctance to go home
E) desire to have school personnel contact parents.

Question # 20 (True/False) The family floor plan can be used only as an assessment techniques in family therapy.

A) True
B) False

Question # 21 (True/False) Training in family counseling for school counselors should be a long tern commitment.

A) True
B) False

Question # 22 (Multiple Choice) _______________________ in families serve the purpose of maintaining homeostasis.

A) messages
B) symptoms
C) interaction
D) engagement
E) intimacy

Question # 23 (True/False) A child's school behavior is part of a larger system of interfaces between home and schools.

A) True
B) False

Question # 24 (Multiple Choice) In family systems therapy one of the important decisions that has to be made by the therapist is who in the family system has the most

A) power
B) positive change
C) distress
D) only A and C.
E) All of these.

Question # 25 (Multiple Choice) Which family system model comes closest to Bateson's circular model for living systems.

A) strategic counseling
B) structural counseling
C) Milan school
D) individual counseling
E) group counseling

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